Live Server for VS Code

A lightweight local development server for VS Code with automatic browser reload.

Features

• Serves files from your current workspace folder
• Auto-injects a live-reload client into HTML pages
• Uses WebSocket to trigger reload on file changes
• Supports CSS hot refresh (refreshcss) without full page reload
• Includes directory listing when no index.html exists

Commands

• Live Server: Start Server (liveServer.start)
• Live Server: Stop Server (liveServer.stop)

How It Works

1. Start the server from VS Code.
2. Opened browser points to http://localhost:5500.
3. HTML responses get an injected live-reload script.
4. File watcher detects changes and sends:
   • reload for non-CSS changes
   • refreshcss for CSS changes

Development

npm install
npm run compile
npm test

Watch mode:

npm run watch

Requirements

• VS Code ^1.80.0
• Node.js runtime compatible with project dependencies

License

See LICENSE.